{"id":79741,"date":"2017-08-03T08:27:31","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79741"},"modified":"2017-08-03T08:27:31","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:27:31","slug":"wasserman-schultz-it-aide-arrested-trying-to-leave-the-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=79741","title":{"rendered":"Wasserman Schultz IT aide arrested trying to leave the country"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Dems cry Islamophobia, as Wasserman Schultz\u2019s Pakistani IT guy arrested<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/launch.newsinc.com\/?type=VideoPlayer\/Single&amp;widgetId=1&amp;trackingGroup=69016&amp;playlistId=19132&amp;siteSection=91568_pp&amp;videoId=32742663\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"no\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/debbie-wasserman-schultz\/\">Debbie Wasserman Schultz<\/a>\u2019s top information technology guy, the Pakistani-born\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Imran Awan<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 who was under investigation by the FBI for theft and cybersecurity-tied abuses \u2014 was arrested at Dulles International Airport as he tried to flee the country.<\/p>\n<p>And now Democrats are rushing to defend him, saying he\u2019s the target of massive federal Islamophobia. What a crock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/debbie-wasserman-schultz\/\">Wasserman Schultz<\/a>\u00a0said through a spokesman that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u00a0was simply a \u201cpart-time employee, but his services have been terminated,\u201d Mediaite\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/tv\/democratic-it-staffer-arrested-as-he-tried-to-flee-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but he\u2019s more, much more, than that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u00a0is the same guy who has made big bucks on the back of taxpayers for years, all while having largely unfettered access to computer-stored data from House Democrats. Can you say security breach? He\u2019s also the same guy who just made a curious transfer of $283,000 to two individuals in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pakistan\/\">Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0from his Longworth House Office Building, as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/07\/25\/wasserman-schultzs-it-aide-arrested-trying-to-flee-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0by the Daily Caller News Foundation. He\u2019s also the same guy whose wife and children just left America for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pakistan\/\">Pakistan<\/a>, reportedly carrying more than $12,000 in cash.<\/p>\n<p>And he\u2019s also the same guy who\u2019s been under FBI investigation for some time for allegedly double-billing House members for items like computers, iPads and other technological equipment. He had quite a racket going on;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u2019s two brothers and their wives also served as IT staffers for House Democrats \u2014 for the last 10 years or so.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a family business. A lucrative one, as well.<\/p>\n<p>Between the time\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u00a0started working for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/debbie-wasserman-schultz\/\">Wasserman Schultz<\/a>\u00a0in 2005 and his family members were let go, earlier this year, they had collectively earned more than $4 million in tax paid salaries. In February, House members were alerted to potential for abuse and let go\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u2019s family members.<\/p>\n<p>Until just recently,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/debbie-wasserman-schultz\/\">Wasserman Schultz<\/a>\u00a0refused to fire\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>, however, and even went so far in her defense of him that she recently refused Capitol Police\u2019s request to search a laptop belonging to him.<\/p>\n<p>And just this week?<\/p>\n<p>Just this week, the FBI seized smashed hard drives from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing suspicious there, right?<\/p>\n<p>Agents with the U.S. Capitol Police, Border Protection and the FBI stopped him Tuesday at the airport, where he was headed to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pakistan\/\">Pakistan<\/a>\u00a0by way of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the investigation involves what information the family had access to, and what they did with it.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>, for instance, has been charged with fraudulently taking out mortgages as part of one of several alleged financial schemes \u2014 conducted at a time when he had access to emails and files of dozens of members of Congress and to information tied to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/debbie-wasserman-schultz\/\">Wasserman Schultz<\/a>\u2019s former Democratic National Committee organization. Feds also think the family may have put sensitive House information on the \u201ccloud,\u201d leaving it open for others to view.<\/p>\n<p>And what do the Democrats have to say about all this?<\/p>\n<p>Unbelievably enough, they\u2019re siding with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York, for instance, suggested police have simply framed\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u00a0because he was born in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/pakistan\/\">Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/topics\/imran-awan\/\">Awan<\/a>\u00a0and his family are of Pakistani descent and according to Democrat sources, their ethnicity is \u2018a factor in the attention they\u2019re receiving,\u2019 \u201d Mediaite reported.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats truly couldn\u2019t be any more blinded by partisanship. They\u2019re obviously so willing to do the catering of their leftist base\u00a0\u2014 to fight hard for their open-border activists, their Muslim apologists in the lobby world, their progressive bulldogs\u00a0\u2014 they\u2019d put the security of the nation second to the get-away car of a federally suspected fraudster. Makes you wonder what Democrats are really trying to protect\u00a0\u2014 what Democrats are really trying to hide.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/26\/wasserman-schultzs-pakistani-it-guy-arrested-airpo\/\">http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2017\/jul\/26\/wasserman-schultzs-pakistani-it-guy-arrested-airpo\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dems cry Islamophobia, as Wasserman Schultz\u2019s Pakistani IT guy arrested<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}